Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-10

skirt Ia bemmed with q wide hem below,
and has two or three tucks, perhaps. The
sleeves NAV be full with a wide cuff, as In
a picture; but plain and not too tight coat
sleeves are the most becoming to these
blouses and the coolest. The wide, tight
emf binds the forearm and gives the wearer
a smothered sensation on q very warm
day. Otherwise this costume is really
cooler, in spite Of its wooden material, nan
many of the thin dresses which are pur-
chased for comfort in the ummer months.
The reason is that it is perfectly loose,
while MANY of the alleged cool gowns are
TIGHT about,the waist, hence uncomfortable.
That part of the blouse above the wide
collar can be made separate and fastened
in temporarily, or taken out n a
chemisette inserted when the wearer wlshes
to look and feel more summary about the
neck.
~
This is the yachting costume which all
feminine London is going into this season.
II is a restful thing to wear and to look at
after seeing so many, many glove httihS,
tailor made gowns as one sees here IN New
York. all of which must have a snug cor
set under them. A prejudice against the
corset is growing, and | am glad OF 1t. Say
what YOU will in favor OF this accursed
garment, it is not easy TO wear even IN ITS
~loosest attitudes. And if you feel feeble or
tired the sight of a woman all braced and
laced ND in a corset and close wasted
gown adds TO your WEAKNESS. Nine.
Bernhardt despises the corset. Never
wore one in her life, and never
intends to. And that, without q doubt, Is
why her figure is so flexible and graceful
and her movements ~sinuously fascinating
like those of some housekeeping, free
limbed, iuDgle-bred tigress. The muscles
of her body have been taught to depend on
themselves, and not on stays. In the WIN
ter, SAYS one who claims to know, she wears
to the theatre a long full gown Of heavy
Chinese crepe, with tight lifting sleeves
reaching to the elbow only. The gown
hangs loose from the throat to the ankles.
Over this she wears her stage costume, never
removing it unles the toilet is decollette.
It serves two purposes. 1t keeps her warm
and adds the necessary ~fullness to her tig-
ure without In the least impeding her
movement.
Ellen Terry wears no corset and her
willowy grace is dream like in its beauty.
Miss Eastlake wears no corset on or on the
stage, either. Her wide, classic waist and
long, powerful step are very definite parts
of her attractiveness. Langtry is a corset
ed Juno. She keeps her figure well up TO
the modern conventional English standard
of fashionable beauty. Fashionable 1t Is,
but artistic, never.
In u lecture given by Franklin Sargent
to the pupils of the Lyceum school Of act
ing in this city recently, the lecturer SAID:
THE inventor of buckram should be pub
licly d%ishopored. The corset, in all its
forms, destroys not only health but beauty.
With its introduction the poetry or tue
feminine form was turned into prose.
Bernhardt understands this, and poses un.
trammeled by watch springs or whale
bones"
MANY ladies have their thick gowns
fitted over a corset and then wear them
without the corset. And as for bustles,
they are certainly distortions of the intent
of divinity. Fashion demands them with
the tight wasted, regulation draped dress;
but all the world and Jupiter will admit
that they are uncomfortable, ugly and un-
graceful. Ifa woman had been horn with
such an excrescence on her person, wouldn't
she give her last dollar to have it re-
moved? Yet she will permit the foolish
fetch fashion 10 put it on her, though she
groans and signs in misery every hour
that she wears it. And so | say, get an
outing costume and live in it all You IAN.
BE comfortable, and look comfortable and
graceful. Blessed be the fashion which
distcrts not the human form.
Now is the time to get a round or sailor
hat of white rough straw and trim it with
white ribbon, tarletan or null. 1t viii
give a summary atmosphere to any toilet
and be appropriate. With black or white
it will be adorable. Hats Of that kind can
now be bought at many houses in this city
for twenty-five, twenty, nineteen and even
seventeen cents apiece.
A to bonnets, word comes from over the
sea that some beEiidering ones have been
prepared for Ascot, the SWEETEST OF British
race meetings. They are dainty and airy
to degree. Stringless they are, ofcourSe,
and are worn perched on the top Of the
head in a dare you sort of way, that makes
a masculine heart c~apitulate at once on
any terms. Even there, where the laws
in regard to hats and bonnsts are severe
and infexible, the sailor hat is met at every
stem this season. Red sailors are particu-
larry in vogue with our English cousins.
Somebody man, of course-reminds us
all that red hats are no good for weeping
in. He says: 1--WE may laugh in a sky
blue hat, but we must not weep in a rose
cOlOred one"
English divinities who are ordering their
costumes for Ascot are providing parasols
that cost $40 for the same occasion. 4
weapon of this kind il supposed TO be
capable ofreducing a rival to despair. Red
sunshades are to have q chance for their
lives at the races, too. Some of them have
sticks a yard and a quarter long and are
called ineroyable-in plain English, In
credible, or beyond belief.
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There have been some June weddings in
this city, in church, the contracting par
ties being in fashionable life. On such oc-
oasions the guests generally wear very fine
feathers. One gown yornby a well known
belle was of white Grape, made in the
E~lizabethan style of loops and high stand
ing collar, legof mutton sleeves, anddread-
fully rotund skirts. Small bonnet to match
the gown completed the outfit"
By the way, there is change in the
evening wear OF .'the gentlemen, heaven
bless them" The opening in the full
dress waistcoat is changing from the wide
horse shoe to the old v, but the new style
curves the sides of the v q little. This
change is for the purpose Of regularly
'laying out'' the resdy-made clothing
men.